I had a somewhat heated discussion with someone who called herself a psychologist but hadn't studied statistics. To my thinking, statistics is central to psychology being called a science. Without statistics you're trading in conjecture and anecdote. When I said psychology without stats isn't science, it didn't go down too well.
Our Constitution is quite possibly the greatest piece of law ever written in the history of mankind. Oh FFS get over yourselves America. Your constitution isn't some kind of sacred document. It's a law, and should be changed when it's necessary.
If it's such a great piece of law, how come so much of it can be interpreted so many different ways? Like that bit about guns.
Yep, had a similar experience at my work. One morning, I was using the OpenCMS wiki site. That afternoon, it was blocked. WTF? So I couldn't do my job. Brilliant piece of software, that!
No the mechanism has absolutely no bearing on the acceptance of homeopathy by evidence-based medicine. There are many accepted medical treatments that we don't understand. Look particularly into the field of drugs that influence the brain -- psychiatric and headache drug -- and you'll see we have a few theories but no real understanding of what's going on. This doesn't stop them being used in mainstream, evidence-based medicine because they can be shown to be effective and safe
The fact is homeopathy doesn't work -- it has been shown time and again in properly controlled studies to be no more effective than placebo. Acupuncture, on the other hand, has been shown to work and so is accepted by evidence-based medicine.
Wait a second, you're complaining that it's not so easy to install, but you're compiling it from source? WTF? Install it from binary packages ferkrissakes!
I notice that while you have a problem with the government funding research, you haven't mentioned that you have a problem with the government intervening in a failed capitalist company (Rover car company), which is the cause of the funding reduction.
You clearly have no idea what the Research Councils do. One of the big things the Medical Research Council does is explore new ways to use out-of-patent drugs. The way the patent incentive system works, there's no way the market would explore, for example, using long out of patent anti-leprosy drugs to combat cancer. Without the MRC's research, this kind of development just won't happen.
(while discussing RPM)
Still, a lot of other systems like Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo or Linspire do not use the RPM format and do not plan to incorporate it. What that means is he hasn't used any other packaging formats. Common mistake that people think RPM is somehow "best" because it's used by a few distros. Do some searches for "circular dependency RPM" to see why that's just not true.
GWB Couldn't last a week in any engineering capacity--not just because he is an absolute idiot, but because he has no concept of responsibility, honesty, fairness, ethics, or any of another hundred positive values.Sounds like most of the project managers and sales people I've ever worked with.
Yes another good example of why having health insurance attached to your job is a Really Bad Idea and another argument in favour of universal health care provided by government.
But then, you guys could just head North to see how it works in Canada if you want to see it in action
Red Hat Australia did its best to support Crest Electronics with the issue until it decided to move to Windows, says Red Hat Australia general manager Max McLaren.
"We asked the customer to do a diagnostic test and the customer never responded, so it was impossible for us to address the issue," Mr McLaren says.
So in other words, hardware fault that they never bothered to trace. What's the bet the Windows system was on fresh hardware?
Let's change the one thing that is standard around the world, time. Yeah now that's a GREAT idea!
Any reason why this was announced in the great Crackpot Science Month that is December? That's right kids, there's no real news so this has a hope of getting coverage.
I've often thought the cops should be required to wear a camera in their hats or on their uniform. Use some form of solid-state recording medium and have upload terminals in the cars and stations.
The theory goes, if they cover or turn off the camera and someone makes an allegation, the cops look guilty already and the accusation gets heard, instead of the coppers all giving the same story.
If this was truly for engineers, it would use metric units and wouldn't mix volume and weight units unnecessarily. Using cups for recipes is ridiculous considering the possible variations in texture and grain size.
Why do these sites always name their tracks so badly? What's wrong with -/..mp3? Instead I get bleep/wap102/01.mp3 -- fucking useful that. At 6.99 an album, I don't expect to have to fix up the filenames like I do with pirated music just so I can know what it's called!
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I had a somewhat heated discussion with someone who called herself a psychologist but hadn't studied statistics. To my thinking, statistics is central to psychology being called a science. Without statistics you're trading in conjecture and anecdote. When I said psychology without stats isn't science, it didn't go down too well.
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
If it's such a great piece of law, how come so much of it can be interpreted so many different ways? Like that bit about guns.
When is SketchUp coming to Linux? It's a brilliant piece of software, and I'd even consider buying the Pro version, but it's not available!
Yep, had a similar experience at my work. One morning, I was using the OpenCMS wiki site. That afternoon, it was blocked. WTF? So I couldn't do my job. Brilliant piece of software, that!
No the mechanism has absolutely no bearing on the acceptance of homeopathy by evidence-based medicine. There are many accepted medical treatments that we don't understand. Look particularly into the field of drugs that influence the brain -- psychiatric and headache drug -- and you'll see we have a few theories but no real understanding of what's going on. This doesn't stop them being used in mainstream, evidence-based medicine because they can be shown to be effective and safe
The fact is homeopathy doesn't work -- it has been shown time and again in properly controlled studies to be no more effective than placebo. Acupuncture, on the other hand, has been shown to work and so is accepted by evidence-based medicine.
Wait a second, you're complaining that it's not so easy to install, but you're compiling it from source? WTF? Install it from binary packages ferkrissakes!
The Debian and Ubuntu packages Just Work for me.
I notice that while you have a problem with the government funding research, you haven't mentioned that you have a problem with the government intervening in a failed capitalist company (Rover car company), which is the cause of the funding reduction.
You clearly have no idea what the Research Councils do. One of the big things the Medical Research Council does is explore new ways to use out-of-patent drugs. The way the patent incentive system works, there's no way the market would explore, for example, using long out of patent anti-leprosy drugs to combat cancer. Without the MRC's research, this kind of development just won't happen.
GWB Couldn't last a week in any engineering capacity--not just because he is an absolute idiot, but because he has no concept of responsibility, honesty, fairness, ethics, or any of another hundred positive values.Sounds like most of the project managers and sales people I've ever worked with.
See Sony's "Linux" system for the PS2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS2_Linux
Yes another good example of why having health insurance attached to your job is a Really Bad Idea and another argument in favour of universal health care provided by government.
But then, you guys could just head North to see how it works in Canada if you want to see it in action
You mean except for the (hefty) subsidy?
http://mappinghacks.com/index.cgi/2005/10/06
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk
So in other words, hardware fault that they never bothered to trace. What's the bet the Windows system was on fresh hardware?
None for measles yet? What rock have you been living under?
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There's been one since 1963, and if you haven't had it you're (or your parents) a moron.
http://www.vaccineinformation.org/measles/qandava
So now your restraining how I can sell my art? How is this good for artists?
No, the copyright period must remain as it is. The period was well thought out in the first place.
Repeat after me: Leverage is not a verb
Haha. Funny American complaining about the price of petrol. (Yes, it's called petrol because, funnily enough, it's a liquid not a gas.)
Let's change the one thing that is standard around the world, time. Yeah now that's a GREAT idea!
Any reason why this was announced in the great Crackpot Science Month that is December? That's right kids, there's no real news so this has a hope of getting coverage.
time to explain this one again.
If you have a can of Coke and I take it, you no longer have a can of Coke. This is theft.
If you have a can of Coke and I use my beverage-copying machine to make a copy, we now each have a can of Coke. This is not theft.
I've often thought the cops should be required to wear a camera in their hats or on their uniform. Use some form of solid-state recording medium and have upload terminals in the cars and stations.
The theory goes, if they cover or turn off the camera and someone makes an allegation, the cops look guilty already and the accusation gets heard, instead of the coppers all giving the same story.
If this was truly for engineers, it would use metric units and wouldn't mix volume and weight units unnecessarily. Using cups for recipes is ridiculous considering the possible variations in texture and grain size.
Why do these sites always name their tracks so badly? What's wrong with -/..mp3? Instead I get bleep/wap102/01.mp3 -- fucking useful that. At 6.99 an album, I don't expect to have to fix up the filenames like I do with pirated music just so I can know what it's called!
archive.org retroactively honours robots.txt exclusions. Could they perhaps be redacting old stuff from there?